Israeli Air Force

The Israeli Air Force (IAF) is the aerial warfare branch of the Israel Defense Forces. Founded on 28 May 1948 by veterans of World War II volunteering to fight for Israel during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war, the IAF was effective in destroying the air forces of the neighboring Arab states in 1967's Operation Focus during the Six-Day War and again in 1973 in Operatio Tagar during the Yom Kippur War. More recently, the Israeli Air Force has engaged in bombing campaigns against known Palestinian terrorists from Hamas, the Popular Resistance Committees, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, and other like groups, in addition to Hezbollah in Lebanon. Most of the IAF's equipment was made in the United States, the primary supplier of the Israeli military.